Free Intel i965 graphics drivers released
Free Intel i965 graphics drivers released
Posted Aug 9, 2006 21:02 UTC (Wed) by leoc (guest, #39773)In reply to: Free Intel i965 graphics drivers released by rvfh
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I'm glad to hear this, too. I just bought a Lenovo C100 laptop and it has the 915G in it.
Posted Aug 9, 2006 21:26 UTC (Wed)
by sanjoy (guest, #5026)
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But the drivers that are released are i965 not 915G. But I'm
confused by the iNNN product numbers. I have a Thinkpad
T60 and it has a 945G, and I think that's different
from 915G and i965, but have confused myself trying to figure it out.
By the way, I chose this particular T60 model because it had the Intel graphics and therefore
had a free-software driver. It meant 1024x768 resolution instead
of 1400x1050. But as a British Special Branch (like US FBI) officer told me when
I was forbidden from boarding a plane because my hand luggage had a sign "Bush, International Terrorist": Every freedom has its price.
Posted Aug 9, 2006 21:29 UTC (Wed)
by jwb (guest, #15467)
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965G G965 Integrated Graphics Controller
Posted Aug 9, 2006 22:08 UTC (Wed)
by s_cargo (guest, #10473)
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Good.
Posted Aug 9, 2006 22:19 UTC (Wed)
by arcticwolf (guest, #8341)
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Posted Aug 9, 2006 22:48 UTC (Wed)
by allesfresser (guest, #216)
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Posted Aug 9, 2006 23:11 UTC (Wed)
by sanjoy (guest, #5026)
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The sign incident at Heathrow seems to have set the cat among the pigeons,
so here's the full story for those interested.
The Special Branch
officer did bring up the issue of the US Constitution and claimed that there's
no right of free speech in the UK, unlike in the US. That's
partly true. There's no constitutional guarantee
in the UK, except sort of via the European Convention on Human Rights, which includes the right to free speech. But that's incorporated
into UK law only via an act of Parliament, and can be undone
in the same way. Plus the right can be restricted for a ton of reasons (see the long list in article 10(2) of the ECHR).
About the right to free speech not guaranteeing freedom from adverse consequences, that's true. But if the consequences become too severe, the right
turns into a fiction. For example, if it means you lose your
job (as during the McCarthy era), it's not much of a right.
Posted Aug 15, 2006 10:43 UTC (Tue)
by evgeny (subscriber, #774)
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Absolutely true.
Posted Aug 10, 2006 1:29 UTC (Thu)
by beoba (guest, #16942)
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Posted Aug 10, 2006 1:57 UTC (Thu)
by sanjoy (guest, #5026)
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So what consequences are allowed?
It's a continuum. More consequences for speaking means less freedom of speech.
So it has been a centuries-long battle between those who want to extend the sphere of freedom, by reducing official and private consequences, and those who want to restrict it.
Even in the land of the free, a few laws protect one
even from privately generated consequences. For example, the Civil Rights Act 1964 forbids
employers from retaliating against employees who protest race-based discrimination in hiring. This issue
arose when the American Institute of Physics fired an employee
who protested their all-white hiring policy at the editorial level. As a result
of a many-year public campaign, with a bit of added force from the Civil Rights Act, the
organization settled monetarily and agreed to mend their ways. It's one
example of how freedom of speech is extended: slowly and with lots
of effort.
Posted Aug 10, 2006 13:20 UTC (Thu)
by lysse (guest, #3190)
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Posted Aug 10, 2006 0:46 UTC (Thu)
by thebluesgnr (guest, #37963)
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You can use the native resolution with Intel's drivers.
Posted Aug 10, 2006 1:15 UTC (Thu)
by sanjoy (guest, #5026)
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Right, though Lenovo offered the Intel graphics only
with T60 models with 1024x768 resolution. Apparently beta
models (or at least one review model) had 1400x1050 using Intel
graphics, but the production models do not. Silly!
Posted Aug 10, 2006 2:35 UTC (Thu)
by dberkholz (guest, #23346)
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Posted Aug 10, 2006 3:33 UTC (Thu)
by arjan (subscriber, #36785)
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Free Intel i965 graphics drivers released
Actually, the 915 is supported:Free Intel i965 graphics drivers released
965Q Q963/Q965 Integrated Graphics Controller
946GZ 946GZ/GL Integrated Graphics Controller
945G 945G Integrated Graphics Controller
945GM Mobile 945GM/GMS/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller
915G 82915G/GV/910GL Express Chipset Family Graphics Controller
915G 82915G Express Chipset Family Graphics Controller
915GM Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller
865G 82865G Integrated Graphics Controller
855GM 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device
852GM 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device
845G 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device
i830M 82830 Chipset Graphics Controller
815 82815 Chipset Graphics Controller
810 82810 Chipset Graphics Controller
810-DC100 82810-M DC-100 System and Graphics Controller
when I was forbidden from boarding a plane because...
Free Intel i965 graphics drivers released
Yes, very good indeed... can't have people thinking that they have a right to freedom of speech or anything, right? Free Intel i965 graphics drivers released
I think the poster said that this was a British special branch officer--if the person was in Britain then they're not covered by the U.S. Constitution, of course. Does Britain have the same sort of free speech guarantees in legislation/constitution? Also, even in the U.S., the right to free speech doesn't guarantee you won't experience consequences because of your speech.Free Intel i965 graphics drivers released
Free as in speech
His record is clean and he hasnt committed any offence, except lacking good sense.Free as in speech
So what consequences are allowed?Free Intel i965 graphics drivers released
Free as in speech
The desire for freedom of software and the desire for freedom of expression stem from the same root. I can't understand how someone can find the one desirable enough to pop up here whilst treating the other with so little regard.Free Intel i965 graphics drivers released
"It meant 1024x768 resolution instead of 1400x1050."Free Intel i965 graphics drivers released
Free Intel i965 graphics drivers released
You need to use the modesetting branch in git to have this working properly, or try some hacks out there such as the i915resolution program, or apparently use whatever they've posted at this site.Free Intel i965 graphics drivers released
If you have specific information about how to make a laptop model work, please go to the http://intellinuxgraphics.org/ website and go to the "hardware matrix" page; that is where such information is collected; there's a link there to submit your laptops information to share this with other users and help them out...Free Intel i965 graphics drivers released